Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea)

From:

Peter Rasmussen

Subject:

Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea)

Date:

Fri, 07 Jan 2000 00:11:36 +0100

Helge Hess wrote:
> Yes, of course. See GToolKit on one approach (which certainly could be
> improved). As I said, gstep-gui might need to be dropped - I'm not
> talking about a gtk+ 'backend' (though this is somewhat technically
> interesting)
The focus of GToolKit is to allowing GTK developer to work with ObjectiveC
and leverage bacic foundation ObjectiveC objects for this ...
IMHO to speedup GNUstep I think it would make a lot more sense to
build a "component" NSView subclass type that could wrap around an entire
high level widget from a foreign widget set ... like textsystem, html browser,
spreadsheet.
In a way such that events on the runloop and redrawing get shared properly.
Like this the remaining large scale components could be filled quickly,
resulting in a usefull system ...
Cheers
Peter